Leading out of that, Rookie Blue returned to 4.5 million viewers — down 17 percent to a season low — and a 0.9 rating, matching its last outing. NY Med (5.5 mil/0.9) added a few eyeballs but ticked down in the demo.

FOX | Leading out of a Sleepy Hollow repeat, Gang Related (2.3 mil/0.7) was flat.

NBC | Leading out of a Game Night rerun, Welcome to Sweden (2.6 mil/0.7) dipped 10 percent and a tenth while Working the Engels (1.9 mil/0.6) slipped 14 percent in audience. Last Comic Standing (3.3 mil/1.1) was steady.

Not really no. You have no way of proving it either. Previous seasons have done better on ABC regardless of when it was shown in Canada. The current drop is just one of those things, Motive is experiencing the same. For one reason or another some Nielsen viewers have just stopped watching. Perhaps they lost interest, who knows?

If you could conclusively prove that Nielsen households are watching these episodes online yes. But previous seasons have rated higher regardless of when the episodes were aired in Canada. The general TV viewer without a Nielsen box who may watch something online isn’t tracked to begin with.

If they do can they please air it at the same time as Canada??? I don’t make a difference to the Nielsen ratings but I have watched clips online after Global shows it and it has sat on my DVR when ABC airs the episodes.

Actually no they’re not. Rookie Blues 5th season is being split up into 2 parts, 11 episodes to air this year, the other 11 to air next year. This practice has been done quite a lot on other networks, such as Syfy with Warehouse 13, Eureka, Haven. Split seasons does not equal 2 seasons.

Walking Dead follows the split season format, Mad Men has done too, as has Breaking Bad. I could name dozens more.

You’re right. That’s quite deceptive of them if anything. Plenty of places were quoting Season 5 as 22 episodes, now they’re saying Season 5 is 11 episodes, Season 6 11 now basically. Apologies for doubting you.

Feel like Rookie Blue has a bigger gap this year between when the Canadian series started airing episodes and when ABC in the US airs them. They are so far ahead this year I can see how more viewers are just watching them as they air in Canada and not waiting for the US broadcast. It’s like a 4 episode gap.